I’m currently helping organizing a film festival and it basically works like this. We got hundreds of password protected links to movies for screening, most of them on vimeo. I wouldn’t hand them out though because these are all small productions.
Not necessarily. I don’t consume any social media that algorithmically serve me content, but my sleep schedule is still utterly fucked up. I can easily do an offline puzzle for hours instead of going to sleep for example
I guess most people are definitely negatively affected by manipulative algorithms. But I think what is discussed in the article is contributing even more strongly to our society-wide sleep deprivation. That is, spending the vast majority of our time inside.
The movie about Melania Trump I’d think
Most of Europe I’d say…
Interestingly, it is still very different. Men fantasizing about sex bots is objectifying female bodies and taking control over them. That’s why it is so creepy. Women searching for a romantic partner in chat bots is actually subjectifying an inanimate thing.
Nice article! As an outsider I still don’t get why people wouldn’t sell/buy unpainted minis for cheap (e.g. on etsy)
On my phone I watch via the Grayjay app (I used newpipe before, but it wasn’t as reliable). If it asks me to login, I either use a VPN or watch YouTube in a Firefox-based browser with ublock. I haven’t seen ads since years…
On my PC I also just use Firefox and ublock to watch without ads.
I nowadays only identify plants on iNaturalist, so I only use morphological and taxonomic data. And I hardly ID any plants that are cultivated. So I cannot really help you with physiological or cultivation information.
For identification purposes I mostly use POWO (plants of the world online), where there is more information for the plant group I work with. It seems like the information on POWO is more sparse for Cactaceae (here is the entry for the same species you linked to, notably Morawetzia sericata is a synonyme of this species). It’s also very dependent on what plant family you work with. There are more popular ones that have dedicated sites for them, while less popular ones have hardly any information available. Sometimes I’m happy to even find information what distribution a species may have or to find even one herbarium voucher of it. Also, there are some local herbarium databases where they have digitalized entries. But this is of course very localized information :/
Yes please!! Even the aggregated information online is spread through various sites by different institutions (like Tropicos, POWO, etc). Each site has a bit of information and you have to do a lot of digging to find any information. There are so many local institutions like botanical gardens but also research stations or herbariums where it is often hard to find and access any information. I guess the problem might be related to competition though, as many of these institutions have to showcase themselves and how their funding is related to their publicity.
Hm, it’s good I’d say. There isn’t everything on Tidal and so I have to have some albums on my phone or bandcamp (that is true for Spotify as well). And Tidal isn’t great at distinguishing artists with the same name. But I don’t listen to any popular music and I’m fine. Now that Tidal knows my taste it also gives me some great recommendations. I’ve actually started listening to the “my daily discovery” playlists nearly every day. It updates daily and quite often there is something new and interesting in there. I’ve got an IDM playlist of 539 tracks. And through Tidal I’ve discovered jazz, a ton of vintage african music, luk thung/mor lam, and other genres I hadn’t even known :)
All of these were really cool to see!! Especially devious were those parasitic ants :O
Great text!!! Thanks :)
South Korea actually has a major problem with sexism and gender-based violence. Especially with men secretly filming women! It doesn’t seem unlikely that the filming of the gynecologist clinic was done in secret as well. Just because something is illegal doesn’t mean it actually gets punished.
There is also the larger context in which women experience daily sexism and violence. This fundamentally changes how they react to further violence. Victims of sexualized violence often think of themselves as responsible for the violence they receive, because society constantly tells them they are at fault! Victim blaming is part of society’s effort to tell women they are worthless and to keep control over them. If you solely focus on how the victims of this act of violence are at fault here, you are part of the problem.
if you get mugged going through a sketchy neighborhood, that does not make it ok for a robber, but it is a valid question whether it was really good idea for you to go there.
This is classical victim blaming! Same like when people ask women what they were wearing when they experience sexualized violence. It shouldn’t matter!
You don’t know anything about the context or what patients have said and done in this clinic. You just assume everyone knew about it and was OK with it. And then you blame them for this assumed participation.
What the actual fuck? This is victim blaming! Instead of focusing on the responsibility of the perpetrators you keep focusing on the victims. It obviously is a bad idea to have cameras in places like a gynecologist clinic. But that doesn’t give anyone the right to abuse the footage. And even if you want to focus on why there were cameras in a gynecologist clinic, how can you blame the victims instead of actually talking about the people who put the cameras there??
I’m not related with it, they only have a staff of about 20 people. But it is a citizen science project, so in a way everyone actively using the site is related to it.
No, I don’t know a lot about local Indian politics. But I know from other countries about how export of living organisms is often a contested subject.
How is iNaturalist not open source? They’ve got their code openly published and everyone is welcome to use their dataset. You can write some code and use their API, it’s pretty easy to get started.
https://github.com/inaturalist
I don’t get what your link has got to do with an online platform like iNaturalist. Biopiracy definitely is an important issue in general, but what is the point you’re trying to make here? If you don’t want to use iNaturalist, fine. But you don’t need to come up with nonsensical excuses…
Here is the website: https://inaturalist.org/
You can make an account and start uploading pictures of whatever organism you like, be it a plant, fungus, animal, etc. There is a pretty good computer vision model that can give you automatic suggestions. But the true value lies in other people identifying your observations and sharing their knowledge.
If you want to upload photos, please read the following tutorial first :) https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000192921-how-to-make-an-observation
Do you know about iNaturalist? It is a wonderful community of people that are just like you asking what a certain organism is and then helping each other identify these organisms. You could upload your pictures there, too. However, you’d have to also have a rough location and also take some extra pictures of the plants. There are hundreds if not thousands of plant species that look a bit like what I can see here. So taking better pictures of different parts of a plant really helps.
Great read, thanks for sharing!